Posted by ItinitI on 11:00:00 07-11-2003
Ummm... Is there like a free Objective-C IDE/Compiler for Windows?? [Or even like plugin/headers for Dev-C++ maybe...] ThanX!
Posted by ap on 08:06:00 08-25-2003
There was a Windows port of OpenSTEP, then called Yellow Box (I think) after Apple acquired NeXT, but that was a while ago and I'm not sure if it's easily obtainable today.
MinGW32 (GCC) supports Objective-C. I think that GNUstep has a Win32 backend, but it isn't very mature and visually doesn't blend in well with native Windows apps.
There's also POC, which needs a backend C compiler (LCC-Win32, Borland C++, MSVC++, etc.). I've used it a bit, and it works well enough. It uses a slightly different variant of the language than is used by GCC, so modifications are sometimes necessary to move code between the two.
Personally, I'd like to create an Objective-C wrapper for the FOX GUI toolkit (http://www.fox-toolkit.org). Unfortunately, it'd be a fair amount of work to do without Objective-C++ support (which GCC currently lacks). I've read that it's supposed to be added to the GCC 3.5 branch, but Objective-C++ support has been promised for years now, so I haven't really gotten my hopes up.